(SBS News) Australia is among a group of coal-supporting economies singled out as not getting a spot on the list of 63 speakers at the upcoming UN climate change summit.
Environmental advocates welcomed the ‘unprecedented move’, saying it represented a rebuke of Australia’s climate change policies on the world stage.
“Australia talks the talk, but it doesn't walk the walk. It is a global deviant for climate action," Dr Martin Rice, from the Climate Council of Australia, said.